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Pawlenty's video montage

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But just hours later, the New York Times columnist went online with a blog post titled "I Think Pawlenty Misunderstands Me."

“So, to clarify: nobody in Washington is doing anything about job creation," Krugman wrote. "However, Republicans are working quite hard on job destruction. And Pawlenty — who knows so little about the whole subject that he fell for a well-known zombie claim (killed by facts, but still shambling along) about soaring government employment — is hardly qualified to lecture anyone else on the issue.”

The original clip is actually from a March 27 appearance on “This Week," in which Krugman calls for more — not less – government spending to stimulate the economy.

"I would just say that the aftermath of a terrible financial crisis, and this was the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, is always a prolonged period of weak growth," Krugman said then. "And the tragedy is that Washington has given up on the jobs picture. It's not that — it's not a failure of policy. I think the policies that we have undertaken made things less bad than they would have been. But here we are with still terrible unemployment rate, 37 weeks the average unemployed person is unemployed. And no interest in Washington about doing anything to create jobs."

Hmm. A Nobel-Prize winning economist or a pandering Republican twit trying to appeal to the torch-waving tea party crowd... who to trust on a complex economic question? Call me rash, but I think I'm going with the Nobel winner.

Unemployment remains high because the private sector is concerned about future regulations,

To which Krugman replied,

"All of this stuff about uncertainty is just a myth being made up to blame this on Obama."

Krugman, anyone challenging the dogma of global warming is guilty of treason against the Earth.

"Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes, we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT."

Krugmans' serially debunked lies inevitably get used as talking points by liberal politicians and other left leaning pundits who are too lazy to make up their own lies.

"There was a time when patriotic Americans from both parties would have denounced any president who tried to take political advantage of his role as commander in chief".......Speaking about Bush.....NOT a peep about Obama.

Krugman misrepresented Dr. Paul's views on money and had to retract.

When Krugman misrepresents someone by using a quote to push a point of view the other person does not have, he is engaged in fraud......Thus Krugman is a FRAUD.

When did the people who run the New York Times forget...... that their job....their duty....is to tell the truth?

LOOOOOOOOONG .... AGO.

Go BACK to Europe Krugman, where you make your speech's and all your ....Capitalist....Money.

Hmm. A Nobel-Prize winning economist or a pandering Republican twit trying to appeal to the torch-waving tea party crowd... who to trust on a complex economic question? Call me rash, but I think I'm going with the Nobel winner.

Yeah, Krugman is one to talk about facts after his hate-filled rants against Tea Partiers in the wake of the Tucson shootings. All the facts confirm that the shooter had no connection to the Tea Party, but that didn't stop Krugman from spewing his ignorant hate, both before and after the facts became clear.

I'm less inclined towards Pawlenty simply because he would use anything Krugman had to say.

I love how the teabaggers think a proper argument is to jump in and issue some ridiculous name-calling and think that passes as a solution. The funny thing is how incredibly predictable they are. In fact, I think I might go into business writing comments for teabaggers. They can pick their target from column 1, the issue from column 2, and the insult, slur, or buzzword from column 3. For an additional fee, they can add a random connection to Obama and how it is related to being born in Kenya or his Muslim faith. The best part is their stupid rants will at least be spelled properly.

Nine comments and not one bit of intelligence among them. Just name calling and vitriol.Some day I'm going to click on "Show Comments," and I'll find one by an actual adult who wants to discuss a real, genuine idea.

Nine comments and not one bit of intelligence among them. Just name calling and vitriol.Some day I'm going to click on "Show Comments," and I'll find one by an actual adult who wants to discuss a real, genuine idea.

Humm... are you telling me calling someone a socialist or a teabagger isn't intelligent conversation?